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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove the BKL: remove "BKL auto-drop" assumption from nfs3_rpc_wrapper()
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:59:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090412135912.GA5246@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63a49ef40904101350y68e93b85tad7d355868de9a38@mail.gmail.com>


* Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2009/4/10 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>:
> [...]
> >> Fix nfs3_rpc_wrapper()'s "schedule() drops the BKL automatically" assumption,
> >> when schedule_timeout_killable() does not do that it can lock up.
> [...]
> > Btw, does it fix the lockdep message you've seen while mounting
> > an nfs point?
> 
> Unfortunately no. That lockdep message still happens when I 
> unmount rpc_pipefs. I'll investigate further.

might make sense to post that message here out in the open - maybe 
someone with a strong NFSd-fu will comment on it.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-12 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-10 16:34 [PATCH] remove the BKL: remove "BKL auto-drop" assumption from nfs3_rpc_wrapper() Alessio Igor Bogani
2009-04-10 18:29 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-10 20:50   ` Alessio Igor Bogani
2009-04-12 13:59     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-12 20:34       ` Alessio Igor Bogani
2009-04-13  5:53         ` Frederic Weisbecker

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